In 2014, at least 60 journalists and 11 media workers were killed in relation to their work, according to CPJ research. Local and international journalists died covering conflicts, including in Syria, Iraq, and Ukraine, while many others were murdered reporting on corruption and organized crime in their own countries.

Here, CPJ remembers some of the journalists who gave their lives to bring us this year's headlines.

4. Steps That Work and Those That Don’t

On May 3, 2011, CPJ representatives traveled to Pakistan to raise concerns about the increasing attacks against journalists there and the country’s high rate of impunity. It was a moment of drama: The previous day, American forces had killed Osama bin Laden in nearby Abbottabad. But Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari kept his commitment and met CPJ to discuss the growing number of Pakistani journalists murdered because of their work, and the absence of prosecution against the assailants.

Mexico
City, June 5, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the murder of
Mexican columnist and government spokesman Jorge Torres Palacios and calls on
authorities to fully investigate the crime and bring those responsible to
justice. Torres' body was found in a bag in an orchard in Guerrero state on
Monday, three days after he was abducted by unidentified assailants at his home
in Acapulco, according to
news reports.

The disappearance and murder in Veracruz from February 5 through 11
of local journalist Gregorio
Jiménez de la Cruz remains mired in controversy.

In mid February, after Jiménez's murder, a group of
journalists traveled to Veracruz and investigated the authorities' response to the
journalist's killing. On March 19, the group, called Misión de Observación, published the
findings of its unprecedented investigation in a report called "Gregorio:
Asesinado por informar" (Gregorio: Murdered for Reporting). Their report documented
Jiménez's disappearance and murder, the state's ineffective response, and the less-than-supportive
working conditions of his newspapers in southern Veracruz.

New
York, February 12, 2014--The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on Mexican
authorities to conduct a thorough investigation into the murder of Gregorio
Jiménez de la Cruz and hold the perpetrators to account. Jiménez was abducted on February 5
and his body was found buried along with two other people in the municipality
of Las Choapas in Veracruz state on Tuesday, according to news reports.

New York, February 5, 2014--Armed
assailants today abducted Mexican crime beat reporter Gregorio Jiménez de la
Cruz in the town of Coatzacoalcos, Veracruz state, according to news reports. The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the kidnappers to release him immediately.